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Lennart Poettering Wins 2017 Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response

posted by martyb on Monday July 31 2017, @05:01AM   
from the imminent-recursion dept.

canopic jug writes:

The 2017 Pwnie winner for lamest vendor response goes to Lennart Poettering for systemd. According to CSO which has reported on it, the Pwnie winners which were announced a few days ago, the summary for Lennart and systemd reads as follows:

The most spectacular mishandling of a security vulnerability by a vendor ended up winning a Pwnie for Lennart Poettering due to SystemD bugs 5998, 6225, 6214, 5144, 6237. The nomination reads: "Where you are dereferencing null pointers, or writing out of bounds, or not supporting fully qualified domain names, or giving root privileges to any user whose name begins with a number, there's no chance that the CVE number will referenced in either the change log or the commit message. But CVEs aren't really our currency any more, and only the lamest of vendors gets a Pwnie!"

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• Re:Moron (Score: 2) by FakeBeldin on Monday July 31 2017, @08:08PM

  by FakeBeldin (3360) on Monday July 31 2017, @08:08PM (#547336) Journal

  By the way...not much sense in debating pvanhoof. There's one of him in every systemd discussion anywhere on the web. He goes on about how this is all just "systemd hate", passive aggressively pretending to the the "reasonable" one in the discussion, and proceeds to troll the thread no less that eight pro-systemd comments (and counting)...none of which have been modded up, and several which have been modded down.

  Thanks for the tip - there are indeed a lot of posts by pvanhoof further down that fit your description.

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